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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. FileMaker vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Well established RDBMS

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	45.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Rackspace

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Actian Corporation

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2013

1983

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

Current release

19.4.1, November 2021

12.0, July 2024

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

PHP

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

Ingres Replicator

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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